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More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad - sources


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 60 people were killed in a wave of car bombs across the Iraqi capital late on Saturday, security and medical sources said.

    The deadliest blast took place in the Bayaa district, where a car bomb exploded, killing 23 people, many of them young people playing billiards.

    (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)